Giant Eurasian Trout

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Giant Eurasian Trout

Photograph courtesy Zeb Hogan

The giant Eurasian trout, also known as a taimen, is famous for its voracious appetite, dining on everything from fish to ducks to muskrats. This 5-foot (1.5-meter) specimen was found on the banks of the Eg-Uur River in northern Mongolia after choking to death on a 3-foot (1-meter) victim of the same species.